Faculty, staff, friends, and alumni gathered at a USC Law School dinner March 6 to honor six of the school's retiring faculty members for their service and dedication to the legal profession.

"What if Brett Favre retired six times?" said dean Walter F. Pratt Jr., adding that the retirement of the professors was the equivalent of losing star quarterbacks or leaders of a team.

Vance Cowden, Nathan Crystal, John Freeman, John Montgomery, Dennis Nolan, and Roy Stuckey's combined service totaled 201 years. Pratt said. In the past 10 years alone, they have taught around 13,000 students.

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